Major Gift Announced October 26-30,2009

Major Gifts summary for October 26 to 30, 2009	$247.6 million in public announcements in the USA
Los Angeles, California - The pharmaceuticals mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong has offered the University of California regents a guaranty to underwrite the reopening of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital	$100 million
Honolulu, Hawaii - eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam pledged to the Hawaii Community Foundation over six years	$50 million
Ames, Iowa - Pappajohn Institute, and the building that houses it the John and Mary Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building were named to honor the Papajohn's gift to the University of Iowa	$26.4 million
Summerlin, Nevada - Engelstad Cancer Research Building named at Nevada Cancer Center in appreciation of the gift from the Engelstad Family Foundation of Las Vegas	$20 million
Dubuque, Iowa - Clarke College announced the largest donation in the school’s long history, an estate gift from the Marie Moles Miske, a 1942 graduate	$10 million
Ann Arbor, Michigan - A gift from the late Edwin and Mary Meader to the University of Michigan newly expanded Kelsey Museum of Archaeology	$8.5 million
Louisville, Kentucky - Wildcat Coal Lodge named for gift to U Kentucky residence	$7 million
Green Bay, Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin, Green Bay named the Cofrin School of Business in appreciation of the gift from Dr. David A. Cofrin	$5.5 million
Atlanta, Georgia - Emory Winship Cancer Institute received an anonymous gift	$4.7 million
Hickory, North Carolina - The Solmaz Institute for Obesity created with the gift to ift to Lenoir- Rhyne University, from Gungor and Diana Solmaz of Denver, N.C.	$3 million
Washington, D.C. - Anonymous donor gift to Catholic University	$2.5 million
Crazy Horse, South Dakota - The Crazy Horse Memorial is becoming a satellite educational affiliate of the University of South Dakota thanks to a gift from T. Denny Sanford	$2.5 million
Cazenovia, New York - The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation, of DeWitt, is for the naming rights to the college’s Art and Design Building, to be named Reisman Hall at Cazenovia College	$2 million
Raleigh, North Carolina - A cat-lover, Emil Campbell, has left his estate to area feline charities	$1.7 million
Rochester, New York - Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester announced two new endowed chairs from international donors. The Wadhawan family of India and Evans Y. Lam and his wife Susanna of Hong Kong, China, each made a gift to established an endowed professorship	$1,500,000 ( 2 )
Boise, Idaho - John Jackson, founder of Jackson Foods made a gift to Boise State University, College of Business towards construction of a new building	$500,000
International
Budapest, Hungary - George Soros gift to create an Institute for New Economic Thinking, new institute will reject the efficient market theory that has performed so poorly in predicting our current economic recession	$50 million ( $ USA )
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - A gift from G. Raymond Chang, chancellor of Ryerson University and chair of CI Financial, towards furthering research and education about the treatment of mental health and addictions, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Foundation	$5 million